Jackson School News: Africa Studies

African Studies Course List | Winter 2023

New winter 2023 course on conflict and peacebuilding in Africa

A new winter quarter 2023 course taught by Jackson School lecturer Francis Abugbilla explores the theoretical and empirical approaches to war and peace in Africa. The main purpose is to

Stephen Walt on the future of U.S. foreign policy

“There’s no reason why we can’t still have a successful foreign policy,” said Stephen Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government,

Bringing home the ‘solar power’ of education

Mary Andom, a graduate student in the M.A. in Applied International Studies program who also serves as a communications assistant at the Jackson School, writes about Jackson School doctoral candidate

Mallory on China’s production of fish and its relationship with Gambia | South China Morning Post

Affiliate Professor Tabitha Grace Mallory is quoted in “Gambia’s tolerance for Chinese fish factories tested as Beijing courts poor African nation with deals,” on how China’s aquaculture has become a major

Another ICT4D Failure? Bridge International and African Schools

To improve education systems around the world Bridge International Academies (BIA) offers cheap schooling for the world’s poor. BIA offers teaching at a low cost with standardized pedagogy. Teachers use

Latin American & Caribbean Studies Assistant Director wins prestigious Artist Trust Fellowship

Assistant Director of African Studies and Latin American & Caribbean Studies Monica Rojas-Stewart has won a prestigious Artist Trust Fellowship for 2017. First presented in 1987, the fellowship provides funding to artists across Washington State

Cybersecurity Profile: Tanzania and Mobile Money Use

M-Pesa is an electronic mobile money system free of cards or banks that lets users transfer money between users and go to local agents to withdraw cash. M-Pesa[1] is named after

African Studies Courses – Spring 2017

Engaging the African Union’s Regional Economic Communities in Cybersecurity Preparedness

Nation-state borders are no longer the manifestations of sovereignty that they were in the 20th century, something that is made readily more apparent by the mounting reports of inter-state cyber